Another storm piles it on

Really? Again?”We’re tired, but we’re kind of getting our groove on here,” Lynn DPW Superintendent Andrew Hall said Sunday. “This has happened every weekend for a month.”Yep, it’s another Monday and another storm story, as a blizzard deposited an additional foot of snow to the snowbanks throughout the region Saturday night into Sunday. Boston recorded 16.2 inches of snow, with periods where snow fell at 2 to 4 inches an hour, according to the National Weather Service. The storm made the winter the third-snowiest in Boston history, with 95.7 inches of snow recorded this season. The Weather Channel reported that 85 inches of snow had fallen within the last 23 days.But the Valentine’s weekend storm didn’t just bring snow. Winds gusted between 40 and 60 miles per hour, causing whiteout conditions even hours after the snowfall stopped and keeping a blizzard warning in effect into Monday morning. The storm also brought lightning and lightning strikes. An Arctic cold front also sent temperatures plummeting below zero, with temperatures forecast to fall to -20 degrees Sunday night into this morning when combined with the wind chill.Public officials called the usual parking bans and urged residents to remain home as public works crews cleared streets and high winds and blowing snow caused unpredictable whiteout conditions. The MBTA shut down all service Sunday and announced limited service Monday. Logan Airport cancelled most flights Sunday morning into afternoon.Local and state police reported responding to multiple accidents, including a 20-car pileup on Route 95 South in Waltham that resulted in lengthy delays but thankfully only minor injuries.”I certainly share, I think, the same frustration people feel with respect to the ongoing blizzards of 2015,” Gov. Charlie Baker said in a press conference Sunday. “But the most important thing we can all do at this point is to be cautious and careful and patient, and to recognize that (this) is a Sunday, (today) is a holiday, and it’s probably a really good time for everybody to come up with neat things to do indoors and right around your house.”The drifting snow also put roofs at risk. Lynn Fire District Chief Tim Collier reported that an 8-foot snow drift caused a 50-foot by 25-foot section of roof at ERC Wiping Products Inc., at Commercial and Bennett streets, to collapse Sunday morning. Collier said the building was empty when it collapsed at around 9 a.m. and nobody was injured. The collapse also caused a section of wall on the building to blow out, Collier said.Meanwhile one thing didn’t happen with this week’s snowstorm.February vacation began on Friday, meaning public schools did not have to be canceled on Monday as the cleanup continues.”It’s gusty and the snow is light and it’s blowing all over the place,” Hall said. He suggested checking out Parkland Avenue. “It’s like you’re on the North Pole up there,” Hall said. “It’s insane, water is all whipped up, the wind is coming off across the water and it blows snow across the road, the drifts are taller than the trucks.”